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Show WALKER WALLACE URGES LONG RANGE PLANNING the same period if such planned regulations are not put into effect. Vern Mackay, vice president and manager of Sugar House Walker Bank, introduced Wallace. ( I WALKER WALLACE He urges , long, sound traffic-parking planning. plan-ning. Desert News Photo. Long range and closely integrated inte-grated planning of traffic and parking problems are a must in SiiRar House, Walker Wallace, noted planning engineer, told the chamber of commerce meeting Wednesday. Vice president of the National Flanning and Research Inc., and senior consultant on the world famous Boston Shoppers World, Wallace said Sugar House presents a most interesting problem and a wonderful opportunity to meet and keep abreast with the progress of business. "Sugar House is the natural retail re-tail center of Salt Lake valley," He declared. "You have made a wonderful start and you should set your sights high and keep on with your 'do or die' attitude when it comes to solving your off-street off-street parking and your traffic situation. "But in the long run, throw your utmost support to a fast traffic free-way that might come under discussion in the future, for it can handle the heavy trucks and the motorists who must hurry," he said. . j Then the speaker, who is the son of John M. Wallace, president of Walker Bank, declared there are three major items Sugar House must consider in its future planning. plan-ning. They are: 1. Make it easy to get into Sugar House. 2. Make it easy to park conveniently con-veniently in Sugar House. 3. Make it easy and pleasant to shop and get around afoot in Sugar House. Rejuvenation of the older areas I appears to be a huge task, he said, adding: "But it is not as bad as it seems when you finally get into it." Widening of 21st South this spring, he said, would break the traffic bottleneck on east and west driving, speeding it up, but he quickly added: "Do you want it speeded up so fast it cannot stop to shop in Sugar House? Women don't like to drive in heavy, fast traffic. "They like it convenient to pull off, park in a convenient off-street lot, or to have & convenient bus terminal in the heart of a shopping area. "Then they like to take their time and walk from shop to shop, and they appreciate convenient lanes where there is no motor traffic to worry about," Wallace said. He declared a pleasant one-stop center, jointly promoted and beating beat-ing the advertising drums with a common purpose, was the ideal way to get and increase sales. He said such promotions and ideas cost hard money, hard work, thorough planning and full cooperation cooper-ation of the participating merchants, mer-chants, but the dividends, he estimated esti-mated over a 20 year period would be a 12 per cent increase as compared com-pared to a 10 per cent decline over |